Fishskin bag decorated with colored skins. Rectangular pouch with overlay of geometric designs in red-brown dyed fishskin. Large starlike overlay on one side on lower half. Wide strap.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
26.5 centimeters and width 24 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Compare 2-1553 Eskimo. See Nelson, pp. 43-44.